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Alexander Brückner (5 August 1834, Saint Petersburg – 15 November 1896, Jena) was a Baltic German historian who specialized in Russian studies. He was the father of geographer Eduard Brückner.

He studied history and economics at the universities of Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in Heidelberg with a dissertation on the history of the Diet of Worms (1521). As a student, his instructors included Johann Gustav Droysen, Ludwig Häusser, Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich von Raumer. From 1861 to 1867 he served as a professor of history at the Imperial Law School in St. Petersburg, and afterwards was a professor of history at the universities of Odessa (from 1867) and Dorpat (1872–1891).

Selected works

Bruckner was fluent in both German and Russian, and authored works in both languages. The following are a list of some of his German writings:

• Das Kupfergeld 1856-63 in Russland, 1863 – Copper money in Russia, 1856–63.
• Culturhistorische Studien, 1878 – Cultural history studies.
• Peter der Grosse, 1879 – Peter the Great.
• Katharina die Zweite, 1883 – Catherine the Great.
• Die Europäisierung Russlands Land und Volk, 1888 – The Europeanization of Russia's country and people.
• Geschichte Russlands bis zum Ende des 18 Jahrhunderts, (2 volumes, 1896–1913), with Constantin Mettig – History of Russia until the end of the 18th century.

References

1. ADB:Brückner, Alexander at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
2. New International Encyclopedia, Volume 4 Google Books
3. Most widely held works by Alexander Brückner WorldCat Identities

• 1834 births
• 1896 deaths
• Writers from Saint Petersburg
• Academic staff of Odesa University
• Heidelberg University alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Tartu
• 19th-century German historians
• 19th-century German writers
• Scholars from the Russian Empire
• Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
• 19th-century German male writers
• German male non-fiction writers
• Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany